Edited by Stephen Bury

Over 3,200 entries

The Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators features over three thousand entries on British artists, ranging from contemporary cartoonists to medieval manuscript illuminators. The majority of the content was chosen from the most recent edition of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists (Editions Gründ, 2006), with more than ninety revised entries and sixty new ones, primarily on 19th- and 20th-century artists.

This work provides a compact, accessible collection of entries on printmakers, poster artists, illustrators, cartoonists, calligraphers, and illuminators either native to or active in the United Kingdom from the Middle Ages to the present. The Dictionary is therefore an essential reference for the rich history of British printmaking—both fine art prints as well as works for mass print media—and artistic activities related to the production of manuscripts and printed books. Because of Benezit’s focus on European artists, particularly those active in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, this collection provides excellent coverage of these media during their most significant periods of development.

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Stephen Bury,editor

Advisory Editor Stephen Bury is Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian of the Frick Art Reference Library, New York. He has also served as librarian at the British Library and the Chelsea School of Art, London. Previous publications include Artists’ Books (1995), Artists’ Multiples (2001) and Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant-Garde 1900-1937 (2007). He is also a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Art Monthly.

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